The Making of Modern Intellectual Property Law Cambridge Intellectual Property and Information Law

Author	Brad Sherman,Lionel Bently
Format	Paperback
ISBN	9780521057134
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Manufacturer	Cambridge University Press

This book is a detailed historical account of intellectual property law, from its origins in the 1800s to the present day. It discusses why intellectual property law with its subcategories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did, and describes how the law grants property status to intangibles and creates techniques that enable it to recognize protectable intangibles. The book also discusses the inescapable problems that have arisen from their use.

This book is the first detailed historical account of intellectual property law. In part, it examines why intellectual property law with its subcategories of patents, copyright, designs and trade marks took the shape that it did over the course of the nineteenth century. In addition the authors deal with ways in which the law grants property status to intangibles and describe how the law came to create techniques that enabled it to recognize protectable intangibles, and the inescapable problems that have arisen from their use.